Great, simple program that measures how much data you're downloading/uploading and keeps a daily/monthy etc record. Useful if your ISP limits your bandwidth. Works very well - have been using it for months without problem.

LyXFree professional document processor for windows and linux - the graphical version of LaTex.

A few months ago I changed from Framemaker to LyX because of its more intuitive handling. LyX is great, especially for longer documents.

More Freeware:

http://www.sandboxie.com/ -> Sandboxie allows you to run your browser, or any other program, so that all changes that result from the usage are kept in a sandbox environment, which can then be deleted later. Free for personal use. Win2K and later.

http://www.virtualdub.org/ -> VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpgravity/ -> Microplanet Gravity is a popular full-featured Usenet news client for Win32 platforms. It is adept at pure reading as well as decoding binaries. Gravity has a rules system, scoring and is highly customizable. Compiles with VisualC++ 6.0 and MFC.

http://red.planetarena.org/ -> Alien Arena 2007 is a freeware online/offline deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux! The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern game attributes such as real-time lighting and shadows, shaders, light bloom, reflective surfaces and smart single player bots. The game includes a built in, as well as external server browser and chat client. Players can look up their stats online and chat with other players. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux.

http://www.webbedfeetuk.com/a-simple-diary.html -> A Simple Diary works on Windows '95, '98, '98 SE, ME, 2000, NT & XP. It allows users to schedule their appointments years in advance, manage multiple diaries, set configurable alarms, and it even has a built in to-do list. Of course it can also be used as a basic diary.

http://moonphase.softjournal.com/moon_phase_calculator/ -> Moon Phase Calculator is simple and easy to use tool that allows you to calculate the phase of the Moon for any time in the past or future and to search for the next or previous full moon, new moon or first or last quarter.

http://www.openoffice.org/index.html -> OpenOffice is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite. It includes Writer (word processor similar to Word), Calc (spreadsheet similar to Excel), Impress (presentation program similar to PowerPoint), Base (database program similar to Access), Draw (vector graphics editor comparable in features to CorelDRAW), Math (tool for creating and editing mathematical formulae, similar to Microsoft Equation Editor) and a Macro Recorder.

http://www.blender.org/ -> Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems

*new 12-28-2007*http://www.aignes.com/lwa.htm -> Local Website Archive offers a fast and easy way to store information from the web on your hard disk. Archived web pages and documents are stored in their original file format and can also be opened with associated applications or found by desktop search engines. Win9x/Me/NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista.

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Nice free tool to make screenshots from video files and save them as customisable multiple thumbnail previews with file info and timestamps. You also can automate the grabbing of the screens by pressing the little 'Monitor' icon and fill out the number of screens you want.

Basic how to use: (the small ImageVenue preview hanging on to the right is sharper)
Don't make the previews to width/broad otherwise people would have to scroll from left to right to see it complete, about 980 pixels max will make it fit on a 17 inch resolution (1024x768 pixels). Note make your preview 800 pixels max width when you are going to post it as a fullsize preview (so not as clickable thumbnail) in your post.

[IMG]http://i40.*******.com/rbh1kn.jpg[/IMG] >

When done you can add the preview to your post by using a imagehost like ImageVenue look at this post how you can post using ImageVenue.

Note that 'ImageGrabber II' can grab from more uncommon file formats and/or files with more uncommon file extexions like .divx with no problems, only thing is that it does not recognise and list it in the files it can open ... when you however, while opening a file, select it to show "All Files" instead of "All Movies" they will get listed and can be opened to makes caps of that format.

A fast and easy-to-use calculator that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings. It offers a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum algorithms for calculations. Note that you can drag and drop files on the program to get the selected hash and checksum algorithms calculated

Freeware
Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista (works also but limited on 9x/ME)

SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.

UPDATE: (04-10-2008) just found out that in the recent versions they build in a timer, the program is still useable as unregistered user but every time you now open the program you have to wait a few seconds before you can continue and use it also every time the wait gets a few seconds longer

UPDATE: (04-12-2009) lately Bulk Image Downloader 1.27 was no longer working for me on imagebam so i tried a newer version and that one did work again and also no longer has the timer integrated as it looks, so i advice everybody to leave the older 1.27 for what it is and to download the current version of BID. The new version looks slightly diferent then on the images in this post but functionality is the same.

UPDATE: (04-24-2009) timer is still integrated in the newer version it only became active somewhat later

UPDATE: (20-08-2009) just found that latest versions expire after a 30 day trail period, so i added the older Bulk Image Downloader 2.05 version that has a timer but it will not expire, maximum waiting time will become 60 seconds before you can use the program. It supports imagebam.

I added for who is interested a download link for the older Bulk Image Downloader 1.27 without the timer, i switched back to it from the later version myself, it works just as good but then without the ever increasing waiting periods. (When you use this version then don't update the program when it says there is a newer version available)

Bulk Image Downloader is designed to automatically download and save images from thumbnailed image galleries, bypassing all annoying popups and adverts. Almost all popular image hosting sites (such as imagefap, imagevenue, flickr and shareavenue) are supported.
Integrates in: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera enabling you to download entire thumbnailed image sets with a click of the right mouse-button and then clicking "Open current page with Bulk Image Downloader" ... I use it with Opera. All you need to do is set the download directory and from then on right click on the pages where you want to download the images from :

There is also a 'Bulk Image Downloader Firefox Extension' scroll down on the download page to find it, note that it needs the program installed to work.

As unregistered version it is limited to 200 images max per download, when there are many (200+) images in a thread or you only want to save images from a specific reply then open a post as single post by clicking on the post number of the reply, this will open the post in a new window allowing you to only grab the images from that reply. Right click on the page and 'Open current page with Bulk Image Downloader' to download the images.

On some pages it looks if Bulk Image Downloader (BID) doesn't work although the page contains imagevenue alike thumbnails, what you then need/can do is save the page with the thumbnailed images as .html (without images) to your computer. Then open Bulk Image Downloader and choose the option 'Load From File' (see image) and browse to and open the just saved .html file. That will do the trick in most cases ...

It's software that allows you to download videos from YouTube and many others and convert them to other video formats.
The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button!
It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3.
You can use YouTube Downloader to download the videos of your choice from home, at the office or in school.
Download YouTube Downloader now and get started downloading your favorite videos from YouTube.

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To backup/encode a DVD to .avi you can also use Gordian Knot a freeware all inn one solution, but i can asure you that you will also get the headaches for free to get familiar with it. When you want to give it a go here are some usefull links:

Found the link to this Mac OS X preview maker posted by jenny48549.
Might be usefull for the Mac users to create previewscreens.

Screen Grabber - 2.0.2 (Freeware)(220KB)

Screen Grabber 2.0 is a Mac OS X application for grabbing screen shots at even timeintervals from a movie. Very useful for creating previews, and thumbnails.

Operating System Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel/PPC or later.Additional Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later is required to run; this application is a Universal Binary. The application is a quick hack using the QuickTime API, so proper codecs for QuickTime for the media files you want to work with is also required.